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"Newly released audio recordings revealed on Thursday that President Trump's longtime lawyer Michael Cohen made a string of vulgar legal threats to a reporter in an effort to protect Trump.
The audio, taken from a 2015 interview with Cohen and then-Daily Beast reporter Tim Mak and published by NPR — Mak's current employer — on Thursday, reveal Cohen making legal threats to Mak over a piece he was writing about a 1993 Trump biography.
The biography, written by former Newsweek reporter Harry Hurt III and titled "The Lost Tycoon," details a sworn deposition from Trump's first wife, Ivana, who alleged during her divorce proceedings that Trump had raped her.
When he reached out to Trump’s then-campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks for more information about the claim, Mak said he received an angry call from Cohen.
According to Mak, the lawyer initially attempted to convince him not to go through with"
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